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Title: | TOWARDS A SOCIETY THAT RESPECTS THE PRIDE OF THE AINU: GOVERNMENT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2019 AINU POLICY PROMOTION ACT | Authors: | LEE MINJIA | Keywords: | Ainu Japanese law Japanese government media representation ethnic tourism discrimination hate speech |
Issue Date: | 6-Apr-2020 | Citation: | LEE MINJIA (2020-04-06). TOWARDS A SOCIETY THAT RESPECTS THE PRIDE OF THE AINU: GOVERNMENT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2019 AINU POLICY PROMOTION ACT. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | Abstract: | The 2019 Ainu Policy Promotion Act promises to be better-rounded than its 1997 predecessor, which focused solely on cultural promotion. The Ainu have now been recognized as a people indigenous to northern Japan, especially Hokkaid?. However, they still have not been granted indigenous rights, and their requests for educational support, welfare for the impoverished elderly, and rights to hunt and fish freely in their homeland have not been fulfilled. More significantly, the government continues to frame the Ainu’s current precarious situation as an unfortunate result of modernization, and refuses to apologize for the colonialization of their land. Analysis of media coverage of the 2019 Ainu law reveals that the news has portrayed it in a largely positive light, which implies that readers, who are likely to be unaware of Ainu issues, may well perceive it favorably. However, examination of how the government speaks about the Ainu and how the law has been implemented thus far shows that the government’s focus is still on tourism and cultural promotion, and not on realizing a society that respects the pride of the Ainu, which is the goal of the law as stated in Article 1. Moreover, discrimination against the Ainu, which is banned by Article 4, remains a serious issue that has yet to be addressed in any satisfactory manner. Hence, the government’s attitude towards the Ainu does not appear to have changed significantly since the 1997 Cultural Promotion Act. | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/170706 |
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